Will celeron 600 laptop with 512ram struggle with XPpro??

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I have a Vaio fx101. The hard drive is making "kerrunch clank" noises and
the pc cant find its operating system. So its new hard drive time. It did
have embedded ME but if I got to pay for an OS I might as well put XPpro on.

Will it overload the poor old thing or will it cope ok.
 
Spikey said:
I have a Vaio fx101. The hard drive is making "kerrunch clank" noises and
the pc cant find its operating system. So its new hard drive time. It did
have embedded ME but if I got to pay for an OS I might as well put XPpro on.

Will it overload the poor old thing or will it cope ok.
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That will be fine, min recommended proc speed 300mhz , ram 64mb.

Flamer.
 
That will be fine, min recommended proc speed 300mhz , ram 64mb.
Flamer.
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The minimum requirement for skydiving is; a paper towel with 4 strings
tied to the corners.
 
Your biggest problem will not be so much how well it runs, as you can turn
off the XP eye candy.. check with Sony that XP drivers are available for it
 
Mike Hall said:
Your biggest problem will not be so much how well it runs, as you can turn
off the XP eye candy.. check with Sony that XP drivers are available for
it
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Ah yes good point. Thank you for mentioning it.
 
That will be fine, min recommended proc speed 300mhz , ram 64mb.
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Nonsense! That may be the offical minimum, but that's simply what's required
to be to run it at all. Nobody who uses his computer for more than playing
solitaire would be happy with the performance of such a system
 
Spikey said:
I have a Vaio fx101. The hard drive is making "kerrunch clank" noises and
the pc cant find its operating system. So its new hard drive time. It did
have embedded ME but if I got to pay for an OS I might as well put XPpro on.

Will it overload the poor old thing or will it cope ok.
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Actually with 512 mb of RAM it should perform reasonably well. Not a
screamer but quite acceptable.

My experience with XP has been that RAM quantity has a bigger impact
on overall performance than CPU speed, especially up to 512 mb of RAM.
Good luck

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